Excited to visit UToronto this week for the famous Atwood Symposium!

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To the world and to your community. When you're in a car, your relationship with other travelers is antagonistic. Other cars are your enemies or competitors. When you're on a bus/train or on foot, that mostly goes away. We're now on the same side, just moving through this place together.

"Withered away" is an interesting way to describe a cultural tradition that had major cities dominating large areas to the mid-15th Century, minor cities successfully resisting the Spanish to the 1690s, had a major independence movement from 1847 to 1915, and are still a major part of 3 countries.

Congrats!! Hell of a way to start!

🌻 Next STRiVE seminar: Loren Rieseberg (UBC) explores SVs, adaptation & speciation—from wild sunflowers to 1000+ species!

🗓️ Apr 29 | 9am PDT / 6pm CEST
✉️ Zoom link via mailing list: groupes.renater.fr/sympa/subscr...
ℹ️ Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/about/

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

The scale of the killing in Israeli strikes on Lebanon Wednesday is "horrific", the UN rights chief said, urging the international community to help end the unfolding "nightmare." u.afp.com/Sbth

Wooowwww!!😆🤪
I think the best feeling in mothing is when you put up a pheromone up and while you watch your target species flutters over! So pleased! 3rd time lucky! #teammoth

One cool thing about Cleveland is that it’s a strongly union town!

The conv center plans for their people to have humane working hours. That means they need a little more info from us about space use, catering, etc earlier than normal. Unlikely we can extend early bird much if at all

Don’t wait!

A norm has shifted around the deliberate mass murder of civilians. Yes, it has happened many times before, but usually with a (often-farcical) pretense of plausible deniability. It’s clear that silence and/or complicity of western powers re: Gaza has normalized overt genocide and war crimes.

Norms shift. In any decade of the post-WWII 20th century, Trump’s statement today would have resulted in immediate removal from office (tho he would have been removed 200 scandals ago). Nixon’s coverup, for e.g., was laughably minor compared to what happens daily now.

Our silence on Gaza, and the way we set aside international law, is the greatest gift we have given to authoritarian regimes.

By abandoning our own moral compass, we set a precedent that weakens democracy and strengthens those who challenge it.

I feel physically sick tonight. A psychopath with the means to do it has threatened to annihilate a civilization, and nobody with any power seems willing or able to stop him. People on the news are talking like it’s an intriguing story rather than a world-altering crime, as if life has no value.

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit.
You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

Thanks man!

Thanks Arvid!

Thanks for the kind words @henryarenas.bsky.social !

Many thanks to my mentors, Jason Weir and Daniel Matute

Delighted and grateful for this recognition from @sse-evolution.bsky.social. The Dobzhansky Prize is a special honor, and I'm thrilled to have been in the conversation this year. Big congrats to Wendy Valencia-Montoya!

Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Thanks Bob, I appreciate the note! I hope the work ends up being useful.

Who is De Beer?

Recombination and the role of pseudo-overdominance in polyploid evolution Abstract. Natural selection is an imperfect force that can under some conditions fail to prevent the buildup of deleterious mutations. Small population siz

It took forever but my last paper as an academic is finally out. ironically this paper probably has the smallest audience, but I believe is my most impactful work. I think it provides some nice support for theories on polyploid origins, and has practical implications in crops and conservation

Delighted to see our work on the cover of Systematic Biology!! We introduce an approach for analyzing pairwise-defined traits (e.g. 'strength of RI', 'diet niche overlap') in a phylogenetically informed context (R package 'phylopairs' now on CRAN). Read it here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

Anyway, all social media is or can-be extremely toxic, but I think we lose something valuable with the decline of Twitter.